
Heschel & Hildegard on Thanksgiving, Praise & What It Means to be Human
It seems to me that Rabbi Abraham Heschel offers a deep insight into this most important question: “What does it mean to be human?” Heschel
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It seems to me that Rabbi Abraham Heschel offers a deep insight into this most important question: “What does it mean to be human?” Heschel

Joy is bigger than and deeper than humans hating one another and themselves and even Mother Earth. Joy trumps our sadness when we can learn to

Thanksgiving week is upon us. Even though we are in the midst of a number of wars, it is always right and appropriate that we humans

Dualism is the basis of all war. It creates either/or thinking. Subject/object thinking is necessary for carrying on wars. Mysticism is non-dualism. Julian of Norwich invented the word oneing. How

To rediscover life means not to take it for granted. Not the Earth. Not our relations with all other creatures with whom we are utterly interdependent

Today as we look for ways to stop the bickering, get over our wars and rumors of war, including our war with Mother Earth, we

Yesterday I shared with you what I felt was an important observation about humans getting over our action-reaction, reptilian response to one another, moving beyond

I have a brother who is married to an Icelander who is an artist. For years they lived in Chicago where she attended the Art Institute,

We ended yesterday’s DM with this question for pondering: How is humanity today, how are we today, doing in expressing our divine nobility by way

In her doctoral thesis on the theme of “Royal Personhood,” Helen Kenik points out that in Judaism, “the ideal of kingship was seldom realized”* and
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